If They Walked on the Moon Today

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I don't think any of us thought 25-30 years ago that we'd stop at 12 men on the moon. If you had asked me in 1972 what I thought the future would hold, I would have said, "Oh, we'll have moon bases and labs on the lunar surface by 2001."

I'd love to see a moon shot now. It would be thrilling for my kids. But mostly, because of today's broadcast technoligy, it would be a much more gratifying experience for those of us on the ground.

Think to back to that slow frame rate black and white camera work back in 1969. Now think of what they could do if they walked on the moon today. Today the astronauts could place a high quality digital camera on ever hill. They could film the whole thing in glorious color and stream it over the Internet. NASA could make some moeny by selling the 24 hour broadcast to CBS as a new reality series. (Imagine getting voted off the moon?) Or maybe they treat it like a streaming strip show and let users direct the action ("Yeah. Pick up the rock, baby. Now place it under the Spectrometer. Slowly baby, that's it...")

Ah well. I guess we'll have to settle for watching a new hamster cage module getting velcroed to the International Space Station.

 

[sexy-girl]

lol well it differenately is an intresting concept although i think because of the poor quality camera and video it was easy to realise how far away the astronauts were from earth (im guessing what it was like i wasnt alive ) if it was all shot in high colour and perfect picture kids nowadays would probably just go big wow its just a lump of dust ... the poor footage added mystery i think


one thing i saw that looks pretty cool is the hotel they are going to build (i know they always say that) but they are going to build it from moon rock because its cheaper to use materials that are there ... because of the low g they can build some funky looking towers that arent possible on earth